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Links 2023

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Links 2023

First Day Links, Info, activities (Google Doc)
ChatGPT Touching Base Google Slides August 23 2023
Why Humanities knowledge matters (surfing dog) and email rhetoric. Google slide August 28, 2023
Mark Marino Don't Text Me About the Textpocalypse (From his wild, hilarious book/creative AI experiment, Hallucinate This! An Authorized Autobotography.)
Kirschenbaum and Marino are friends, but differ in their stance on AI. Marino is more optimistic, and interested in exploring creative possibilities.
Peering into the Future of Novels with AI. Stephen Marche, aka Aidan Marchine, describes writing “Death of an Author.”
Along with ChatGPT, Marche used "Sudowrite, asking the program to make a sentence longer or shorter, to adopt a more conversational tone or to
make the writing sound like Ernest Hemingway’s. Then he used Cohere to create what he called the best lines in the book. If he wanted to describe
the smell of coffee, he trained the program with examples and then asked it to generate similes until he found one he liked."
“To me, the process was a bit akin to hip-hop,” he said. “If you’re making hip-hop, you don’t necessarily know how to drum, but you definitely
need to know how beats work, how hooks work, and you need to be able to put them together in a meaningful way.”
Nick Cave does not agree. Personal blog, Verge article.
Exploring GPT3 Training for ‘Black’ Neural-Network Text Generation
Warpland 2.0 is an attempt at shifting the model’s potential outputs by fine-tuning it on a corpus of the work of Gwendolyn Brooks. One goal is to
give the model a context for discussing Black people that is more nuanced and sensitive than the out-of-the-box model.
Discussion questions for the "critical texts"
Experimenting with AI. Exercises for students to do, prompts to play with, sample student draft introductions to be tested on MyEssayFeedback.
Google doc for group work
SubText and Email from student to professor, and from landlord to tenant
Group work Sept 06 - testing Mollick's ideas and discussing O'Neill
AI Bias, and the Politics of Algorithms (slides)
YouTube and bias towards arousal, outrage and extremism (WSJ experiment)
Bias and AI - the Bloomberg study
RWS Argument Textbook (pdf)
New textbook on A.I. and education, with an emphasis on writing. Teaching and learning with A.I.
Rutgers AI Council - Teaching Critical A.I. Literacy.
RWS textbook
Using AI to summarize complex texts as a way into analysis - comparing the results of POE and Bing
Visions of the Future?
1) A.I. Applies to the Ivy League 2) 7% of Intuit Workforce Fired As Focus Shifts to AI-Driven Platform
3) Will A.I. replace Radiologists? 2019 study suggests radiologists who learn A.I. will replace those who don't. Since then the picture
seems more dire, as numbers of medical students applying to become radiologists has decreased dramatically.
A.I. Is Changing Everything. Prompt Engineering & the importance of Rhetoric.
Constitutional A.I.?
Resisting dehumanization in the age of AI - Emily Bender video
Boston Robotics over time. Let's avoid Black Mirror?
Videos: Sal Khan, TED talk, “How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education,” and Gary Marcus TED talk, "The urgent risks of runaway AI"
Dinsinfo, Breaking News, and AI. UNC experience.
Thompson Group work questions
Thompson, social reading, annotation, bookmarking - Hypothesis
Before, after, and ways forward. Doctorow and alternatives to "enshittification." (Slides).
Werry Imagined Electronic Community questions - group work Google doc
Doctorow and the Rebirth of Anti-Trust? When For-Profit Universities Gamed Regulation
Doctorow discussion questions October 02, 2023
Ong/Literacy handout and group work Google doc
Ong slides
More AI-related research opportunities:
Generative AI Activities for the Writing and Language Classroom
Tues Oct 17th (7-8pm Cairo time, 4-6pm GMT, 12-1pm ET)
https://aucegypt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwod-GuqTouG9WfFFgKF3w8KJ1ZMhk_fHQ3
How Teachers Can Harness AI in their Work Tues Oct 24th (7-8pm Cairo time, 4-6pm GMT, 12-1pm ET)
https://aucegypt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscO2qpj8jHdbtA0XuzsuYAlQ2Owr6REkE
Tufekci group discussion questions (Google Doc)
Demagoguery Excerpts 1. Excerpts 2 (fringe to mainstream) Group Work Google Doc - RM and Wallace
Excerpts to analyze - Wallace, Warner, Earnest.
Demagoguery links Oct 30 2023
A week of conspiracy theories Intro to demagoguery and authoritarian populism slides. Examples, video links, links to slides
Factors contributing to culture of demagoguery
A smorgasboard of violent political rhetoric - political ads, candidate statements, etc.
Handout on the rhetoric of authoritarian populism. Apply to statements p receding the January 6, 2021 attack at the Capitol. and excerpts from Trump Speech on Jan 6.
Group work - Google doc on Authoritarian populism